Ore Mine

Ore is the most used, and most abundant resource in the galaxy. It is the fundamental building block of ships and buildings, and can also be used in researching many technologies. As such, the ore mine is generally the first mine new Starfleet Commanders will build.

The Ore Mine produces ore at a set hourly rate. Like the Crystal Mine and the Hydrogen Synthesizer, the Ore Mine can have workers assigned to it and will produce extra ore.

Rather than producing in one lump sum every hour, mines produce resources continuously in Starfleet Commander, so you will see your resources update with every new page load.

Initial ore storage capacity is 100k. When you are nearing your Ore storage limit, the resource counter in the top right of the interface will turn orange. When the counter is red, your mine will stop producing. In order to resume production, you must either use the Ore, or build a Ore Warehouse to increase capacity.

Workers

One worker may be assigned to a mine from the beginning. Another is allowed with every three levels. So a level 3 mine may have 2 workers, a level 6 mine may have 3 workers, etc.

Workers able to work in the mine are:

Type	Production Increase
Mining Droid	2%
Basic Android	4%
Human Worker	4%

Cost, Energy Use, and Production by Level

X = Level

Ore Cost = floor(40∙(1.5)^X)

Crystal Cost = floor(10∙1.5^X)

Energy Use = floor(10∙X∙(1.1)^X) + (1 if X > 1)

Production Value = floor(30∙X∙1.1^X)

Note: The Ore and Crystal costs are the upgrade cost (to go from the previous level to that level) but the Energy Use and Production Value are the absolute values for that level.

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	Energy Use	Production Value	Production -to-energy	Hours to replenish ore
1	60	15	11	33	3	0.454545455
		2	90	22	25	72	2.88	0.305555556
		3	135	33	40	119	2.975	0.277310924
		4	202	50	59	175	2.966101695	0.285714286
		5	303	75	81	241	2.975308642	0.31120332
		6	455	113	107	318	2.971962617	0.355345912
		7	683	170	137	409	2.98540146	0.415647922
		8	1,025	256	172	514	2.988372093	0.498054475
		9	1,537	384	213	636	2.985915493	0.603773585
		10	2,306	576	260	778	2.992307692	0.740359897
		11	3,459	864	314	941	2.996815287	0.918172157
		12	5,189	1,297	377	1,129	2.99469496	1.148804252
		13	7,784	1,946	449	1,346	2.997772829	1.44576523
		14	11,677	2,919	532	1,594	2.996240602	1.831242158
		15	17,515	4,378	627	1,879	2.996810207	2.329962746
		16	26,273	6,568	736	2,205	2.995923913	2.978684807
		17	39,410	9,852	860	2,577	2.996511628	3.823050058
		18	59,115	14,778	1,001	3,002	2.999000999	4.922718188
		19	88,673	22,168	1,163	3,486	2.997420464	6.359150889
		20	133,010	33,252	1,346	4,036	2.998514116	8.238850347
		21	199,515	49,878	1,555	4,662	2.99807074	10.6988417
		22	299,273	74,818	1,791	5,372	2.999441653	13.92740134
		23	448,909	112,227	2,060	6,178	2.999029126	18.16558757
		24	673,364	168,341	2,364	7,091	2.999576988	23.74009308
		25	1,010,046	252,511	2,709	8,126	2.99963086	31.07445238
		26	1,515,070	378,767	3,099	9,296	2.999677315	40.74515921
		27	2,272,605	568,151	3,540	10,619	2.999717514	53.50324889
		28	3,408,907	852,226	4,038	12,113	2.999752353	70.3563114
		29	5,113,361	1,278,340	4,601	13,800	2.999347968	92.63333333
		30	7,670,042	1,917,510	5,235	15,704	2.999808978	122.1032858
		31	11,505,063	2,876,265	5,951	17,850	2.999495883	161.1352941
		32	17,257,595	4,314,398	6,757	20,269	2.999704011	212.8569737
		33	25,886,392	6,471,598	7,665	22,992	2.999608611	281.4717293
		34	38,829,589	9,707,397	8,687	26,058	2.999654656	372.5303937
		35	58,244,384	14,561,096	9,836	29,507	2.999898333	493.4793778
		36	87,366,576	21,841,644	11,129	33,385	2.999820289	654.2352554
		37	131,049,864	32,762,466	12,582	37,744	2.999841043	868.0178571
		38	196,574,796	49,143,699	14,214	42,640	2.999859294	1152.525774
		39	294,862,195	73,715,548	16,047	48,139	2.999875366	1531.306176
		40	442,293,292	110,573,323	18,104	54,311	2.999944764	2035.928688

See Also

• Ore Warehouse
• Mines
• Crystal Mine
• Hydrogen Synthesizer
• Workers
• Mine Droid